Re: [potato] gdm doesn't start windowmanager
> I had the same problem, and I found that there were a couple of things that could be behind it.... first it could be a bad xsession file, or it could be an issue with the window manager, either it's not correctly installed, or the /etc/X11/window-managers file is trying to start a windowmanager that doesn't exist (probably twm....)
I checked that, there is no .xsession file at all and I tried a number of window managers.
I even tried copying the complete /etc/X11 and /etc/gdm directory from my portable
(which does have a working potato, however I upgraded it "a long time ago") to my
desktop. I got the exact same problem. I even tried copying gdm and gdmgreeter from
the portable but it still didn't work :-(.
I promised someone I was going to have a look at .xsession-errors but I'm afraid
I forget it :-). I'll try to post a copy of some config and error files tonight.
Nico
>
> R.
>
> >>> Nico De Ranter <nico@sonycom.com> 08/04/99 03:14AM >>>
>
> Howdy,
>
> I don't know whether this is the correct mailinglist to post
> this but anyway...
>
> I upgraded my Debian box to unstable and installed gdm. Unfortunately
> when I try to login the screen flickers a few times and the gdm screen
> pops back. When I start X by typing startx from a text console
> everything works fine. I noticed this problem on a few PC's that
> have been upgraded to potato so I think it's a bug and not a misconfiguration.
>
> I now potato is called "unstable" for something but I hope somebody has
> a workaround or fix for this.
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Nico
>
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